Man Quotes

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.